Starcraft II Beta on an upgraded eee pc 901 netbook

[TheSpyChecker]

blizzard is a bitch if it comes to tweaking!

[thegreatninjaman]

my comp has 1.67 GHz . so would it be playable for me?

[giffordcheung]

@thegreatninjaman honestly, probably not. This was just a test to see if it worked at all. It's does work. But it's not really playable in the end. The system specs require. 2.67Ghz or a duo core with 2.46Ghz

[thegreatninjaman]

@giffordcheung i just got sc2 and it actually works very well on low graphics. i just cant play anything above 2v3 (maybe 3v3)

[sirmousalot11]

also i was wondering iff you considered the HP mini 311 as playable (b4 the overclock)

[giffordcheung]

@sirmousalot11 From watching other videos, I would say that w/o an Ion chipset, you're out of luck. With an Ion chipset (or equivalent), then it seems like more RAM/overclocking can help, but the primary bottleneck is the chipset.

[sirmousalot11]

@giffordcheung i c, wait there are other videos?

[sirmousalot11]

do yo think that french guys hp mini 311 would run faster with 3GB of ram?

and lowering the screen resoluiton

just wondering cause that guy doesn't answer comments

[c0ncepthue]

The graphics are still high in this. Turn them down it'll play better. Set EVERYTHING to low, should help a LOT. Honestly, the graphics are still good with everything on low. I play on a Acer Revo dual core ATOM 2gb ram, on a 1080 TV. Game resolution is 1280x800 though. Plays fine, a TON of units will start to cripple it (like BIG lame zergling rushes, big ones not normal ones). I also get the messages about my system being slow. Default graphics got me 28fps. Haven't checked with low setting.

[c0ncepthue]

@c0ncepthue OH, I should mention that's with an nVidia ION card. That probably makes all the difference. I might try sticking in a usb stick and seeing if that readyboost stuff helps at all too. I dont know if the system and/or the card can yank memory from that to use if the system is all integrated ram or what. I'm assuming all this anyway - does anyone know if Starcraft 2 takes advantage of GPUs and the ION?

[barbatortuga5]

hey i have an aspire one d250, do u think it will run ok on my pc?

[giffordcheung]

@barbatortuga5 I don't think you'd be happy with it. I wouldn't play sc2 on my netbook regular. It was a technical exercise... so I might tweak some settings, but, if you imagine trying to play seriously, that would be pretty ridiculous

[Kyodaikuma]

LOL 2 FPS you can't really consider to play like this hopefully you have a better pc worthy of sc2 beta key how much ram does your netbook have?

[giffordcheung]

@Kyodaikuma don't worry, blizzard probably wouldn't have given me the invite if this was the computer spec'd in the opt-in. This netbook as 2 gigs of ram. I think that the major bottleneck is the CPU though if other uploaded vids are to be believed.